Issue: Spring/Summer 2018 | Section: @UMICHLAW
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@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2018
Michigan Law Launches Master of Advanced Corporation Law
MACL is the first degree of its kind designed for U.S. and internationally trained lawyers who want to specialize in U.S. corporate and securities law, and gain an international comparative perspective on both.
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Child Welfare Appellate Clinic Drafts New Legislation
Clinical Professor Vivek Sankaran, ’01, director of Michigan Law’s Child Welfare Appellate Clinic, and his student-attorneys were helping a mother regain custody of her young son after a neighbor found him wandering outside early one Saturday.
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Pediatric Advocacy Clinic Supports a DNR Bill
Michigan Law’s Pediatric Advocacy Clinic (PAC), under the direction of Clinical Professor Debra Chopp, has been working on legislation that would give parents in Michigan greater control over end-of-life care for their children.
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Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project Links Small Businesses with U-M Resources
Jevona Watson’s coffee shop, Detroit Sip, is a gem hidden among the underdeveloped buildings of West McNichols Road. It opened its doors on November 18, 2017, with no small amount of gratitude to the University of Michigan’s Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project (DNEP).
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Professor Sam Gross retires | Cook Professors honored | LAW Breaks students volunteer | and more...
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Students Study and Experience Law and Economic Development in India
“People have a lot of perceptions about India,” Professor Vikramaditya Khanna says. “But when you go there, the thing that strikes you is the non-stop activity.” In recent years, Khanna has taught Michigan Law students about how India’s policies and laws are shaping that growth. This year, he took it a step further by taking students from his Law and Economic Development in India seminar on a trip to his birthplace during winter recess.
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Lawsuit Brings Changes to Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Law
Six people who filed a lawsuit against the State of Michigan, challenging the constitutionality of its Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), have been removed from the public sex offender registry after a final order in their case, Does v. Snyder, was issued in January.
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45th Anniversary Edition of The Legal Imagination Published
“When we first published The Legal Imagination, it was groundbreaking and inspirational to a generation of legal faculty and students seeking to re-situate the foundations of law in language and the human experience,” says Joe Terry, publisher of Wolters Kluwer’s legal education division.
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Latham’s Leading Women Series Kicks Off with Microsoft VP Carolyn Frantz, ’00
“When I attended Michigan, I didn’t join the Women Law Students Association because I was adamant that I was a law student, not a woman law student,” said Carolyn Frantz, ’00, who is vice president, deputy general counsel, and corporate secretary at Microsoft Corp.
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Alumni and Friends Service Day in Chicago Supports a Fellow Alum’s Labor of Love
"For a refugee like me, going to the University of Michigan Law School was a life-changing experience,” says Bernard Cherkasov, ’03. As executive director of the Chicago branch of Cradles to Crayons, a nonprofit connecting those who can give with those who are in need, Cherkasov’s work involves providing everyday necessities for children from birth to age 12.